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Worked as a crew leader of dockside sampling, conducting confidential captain interviews and collecting biological samples from Tanner crab, P. cod and black rockfish. |
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January - March 2006
Kodiak, Alaska |
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May - November 2005
Dutch Harbor & Unalaska, Alaska |
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Worked as a field biologist, sampling halibut offloads and collecting fishing logs. |
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Assisted in
resighting banded chucao tapaculos.
Estación Biológica Senda Darwin.
Ruta 5 al Cruce el Quilar. Isla Grande de Chiloe, Chile, South
America.
Volunteered as
a field assistant to resight banded chucao tapaculos, Scelorchilus
rubecula, an endemic
species of birds, in forest patches on the Island of Chiloe. The
work was conducted out of Estación Biológica Senda Darwin
(Biological Station "Darwin's Trail") by Mary Willson with a
total of 3 assistants and a play-back system with a male call
recording.
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 Fundación
Senda Darwin
Estación Biológica
Senda Darwin
21 October - 24
November 2004
Chile, S. America
Santiago, Pucon,
Parque Nacional Huerquehue, Isla Grande de Chiloe (Ancud, Caulin,
Cocoa, Parque National Chiloe), Puerto Montt, Argentina (Bariloche,
Parque Nacional Nahuel Huapi), Entre Lagos, Parque Nacional Puyehue,
Valdivia, Chillan |
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August 2001 - December 2005
Juneau, Alaska
Southeast:
Juneau, Sitka, Gustavus, Haines
Southwest:
Kenai Peninsula (Homer & Seward), Prince William Sound, Valdez
West:
Bethel, Quinohak
Interior:
Anchorage, Fairbanks, Denali National Park |
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Master's degree in Fisheries at the Juneau Center, School
of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska
Fairbanks
Thesis: Prey selectivity and diet overlap in juvenile pink, chum and sockeye salmon in the Gulf of Alaska and Prince William Sound, Alaska
Committee: Dr. Lewis Haldorson, Dr. Gordon Kruse, Dr. Nicola Hillgruber |
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Worked as a fisheries/aquatic ecologist technician. Monitored water quality,
fish abundance and composition in the Illinois River and its
floodplain. Sampled using electrofishing, seining, trawling and fyke-, hoop- and
gill-netting. Learned to identify freshwater juvenile and adult fish
of the Illinois River. |
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Summer 2001
Havana, Illinois |
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January - April 2001
Alaska
Anchorage, Acutan, Dutch Harbor/Unalaska,
Bering Sea, Gulf of
Alaska |
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Worked as a National
Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) North Pacific Fisheries Observer
under a contract with Saltwater, Inc. Worked independently on
commercial fishing boats in the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska,
gathering fishing effort and catch information. Identified fish and
crab species of the North Pacific, sampled for species composition,
collected biological data, monitored for fisheries regulations
compliance and transmitted catch massages to the NMFS Observer
Program. Seventy three deployment days on 97 to 161-foot trawler and
longliners fishing for walleye Pollock, Pacific cod and IFQ
sablefish. |
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The Nyanza Project: Undergraduate Training in Tropical Lakes.
Tanzania Fisheries Research Institute. Kigoma, Tanzania, East
Africa.
Adviser: Dr. Pierre-Denis Plisnier. Royal Museum of Central Africa,
Tervuren, Belgium.
Interdisciplinary training course in tropical lake studies and
research methods with a research component. My project: Vertical
distribution and light effect on zooplankton density in relation to
economically important pelagic fish of Lake Tanganyika, East Africa. |
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Summer 2000
Tanzania, East Africa
Dar es Salaam,
Kigoma, Mwanza, Arusha, Zanzibar, Gombe National Park, Ngorongoro
Crater |
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Brief visit in Summer 2000
Amsterdam, Holland |
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A couple of days in
Amsterdam en route to Tanzania, based out of a hostel in the red-light district. |
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"The largest college trip in history". The trip was sponsored
by Birthright Israel and Hillel. Forty students from
my university went on a 10-day guided tour from January 2 to January
13, 2000. Altogether, approximately 3000+ students went
on this trip from various colleges and universities during this winter
break! We visited Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, went on a jeep ride to
Golan Heights, visited the northern-most kibbutz in Israel, right on the
border with Syria and Lebanon, floated in the Dead Sea and climbed Masada. |
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January 2 - 13,
2000
Israel |
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Summer 1999
Hawaii
Islands: Molokai,
Kauai, The Big Island, Oahu |
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Participated in the Research
Experience for Undergraduates Program at the University of Hawaii at
Manoa, sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Spent
two months on campus of the UH, Manoa, on the island of Oahu,
Hawaii studying the impact of the introduction of mangrove trees on
local flora and fauna under Dr. Craig R. Smith (Department of Oceanography). It was an awesome experience.
Staying there for two months, I was not only able to conduct my
project, but also do a lot of traveling throughout the Island
of Oahu as well as other islands. |
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